The Cannes Film Festival is pretty much the most important event in the
movie calendar - and Newsround presenter Rachel Gibson was there to check out the action. Here's her report...

Cannes is a beautiful town in the south of France right on
the coast with gorgeous beaches and cafes and during the festival the
streets are jammed with celebs, star spotters, movie makers, journalists and
photographers in dinner jackets trying to slip past security!

Rachel films a report for Newsround

I spent the morning trying to get all my pieces to camera filmed; rushing
from the beach full of sunbathers to the Palais, where the movies are shown,
up to the Croisette, where very suntanned ladies carry tiny dogs in their
handbags, and back to the beach again.

But we finally got it all done and, with sunburnt shoulders, I jumped on a bus with a crowd of other journalists heading for one of the most exclusive hotels on the Riviera - the Hotel Du Cap - to interview the cast of Shrek 2.

But it was still pretty glamorous with the sun shining, amazing cakes and juices laid on for us, lots of make-up artists rushing around powdering the stars, and
one of the journalists reckoned she saw Justin Timberlake in the hotel
reception!

Movie big-wigs stay at the Hotel Carlton

At the end of the interviews I had to send all my footage back to BBC Television
Centre in London via a satellite feed.

The office I sent them from was on the third floor of a building opposite the Palais. Just before I sat down to start the feed I heard loads of clapping and shouting outside and ran out on to the balcony to see Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom on the red carpet beneath us!

It was definitely the most exciting story I've ever covered for Newsround.